Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

Hi im also having problems but ive managed to get the system to generate a datafeed for me but can not upload it and dont know how to manually add it to google base.

To manually add it to google base do i open the datafeed by going to the url then copy it and paste it into notepad and save as a xml?

cheers

Hi - I installed this today and I think everything went ok, but when I create my feed it only gives me one record. I have over 1,000 thousand items in my store.

yorick00:

6. Register your bulk upload .xml file using the same name in your Google Base Configuration at base.google.com FAILED! IT IS UNCLEAR! According to my screen there are no any lines for same name. Or there is any other configuration options??? What kind of same name he talking about? My feed file name is "omfgsamename.xml" on which field i should enter it, frankly speaking i can not find any suitable.

7. Go to Admin->Tools>Google Base Feeder and follow instructions to create, view, and upload feed file. FIALED. When i click on Create Product Feed: Click [HERE] to create / update your products feed - GOES nothing - plugin generates new pop-up blank window with none content or any kind of text, steps or other info, tested on 3 different browsers.

So it even do not creates product feed ...

I'm having the same problem and I agree, #6 is not clear.

Anyone???

Well looks like it is working again so what ever it was, someone must have fixed it.

bfmarini:

Hi there,

I installed the most recent version of this and am having some issues with it. For some reason, the HTML tags are not being removed from the product descriptions. I'm seeing all the <b>, <p> etc tags in the "Description" field for the XML file and it's causing it to be seen as invalid.

Any thoughts?

thanks

The problem with the html tags not being removed, I have the same problem with one or two items. I just keep going through them looking for what is out of place, as it is normally something you have in your description causing the problem. Speech marks was my problem for most of them but I still have a few other items that I have to find the tag I should not be using.

Hope that helps

Hi
It looks like its working fine now but when i log into my google base account it doesnt show the product feed. Is this correct? or should it show it. This is the message i get when i upload the data feed through zencart:

Google Base Feeder v.1.7.0 09.019.2008 17:38:59 started 2009/03/26 08:48:37
Feed file - /home/abs007/public_html/feed/domain_products.xml
Processing: Feed - No, Upload - Yes
Upload started...
Uploaded Successfully
-r--r----- 1 ftp · root · 158706 Mar 26 06:54 domain_products.xml
Connected to: uploads.google.comLogin ok:Current Directory Is: /-r--r----- 1 ftp · root · 158706 Mar 26 06:54 domain_products.xml

Upload ok!

Great news its worked and google have accepted the data feed however they are only recognising 20 products out of 55 or so. Its got error like remove ".

Where would i remove it from the actual listing in zencart?

cheers

Ok all is working fine. I have found some errors and have managed to get them sorted. However there is an error that i get for invalid expiration date once the feed has been uploaded. Do you know where i can change this expiration date from?

Even though I was getting any results I set Google up to automatically fetch my feed. This morning I got these results:

Feed status details

Outcome: 	  	Data feed upload failed. No items are live.   help
Number of items processed: 	  	0
Number of inserted items: 	  	0
Uploaded at: 	  	Mar 27, 2009 12:00 am PDT
Processed at: 	  	Mar 27, 2009 12:43 am PDT

    * Detected encoding: US-ASCII
    * Detected file format: Text


Errors:
Error 	Bad data 	Line #
We didn't understand your delimiter.   help 	

Can anyone help me figure out what's wrong, I really don't understand what this means.

Got to
Google Froogle Configuration -
Expiration Date Adjust -- 30
Expiration Date Base -- now

Upload every 2-3 weeks manually or with a cron job and forget about it.

I have zen-cart 1.3.8. I have google froogle loaded and file go to google. Each time I get an email for errors from google. Looks like not including all products either. I have almost 3,000 and only loading around 989. Here are some of errors. Looks like my attributes are also showing as errors.

Errors:
Error Bad data Line #
We recommend including this attribute. weight

We recommend including this attribute. upc

We recommend including this attribute. isbn

We recommend including this attribute. image link

This expiration date is too far in the future. help expiration date:2010-02-23
11462
There is a problem with the character encoding of this attribute. help description:All the elegance of the Reina Valera revisión 1960 combined with the poetic beauty of the King James.

Features:
Words of Christ in red
Presentation page
Harmony of the life of Christ
1792 pages
Binding:
  Imitation Leather

                                     Indexed:
        Â Â                              N

I have been looking thru this large thread. I have not been able to find answer. Please let me know if located elsewhere.

Thanks, Kim

kburner:

  Imitation Leather
Indexed:
  N

Those are illegal characters that the googlefroogle.php file has turned into the A type characters. Open your xml file in a text editor and copy the character and then paste it into the editor's search function so you can replace with the correct character.

This is a bug in this contribution's script. I have the same problem and it takes extra steps to find all of the invalid characters.

I have tried to resolve this before, it lies in the sanitizer function in the googlefroogle.php file. Hopefully Numinix will get this resolved. If I fix it I will post the new file here.

To follow on my last post, the googlefroogle file is stripping all quotes from my products and we have many products with quotes. Not only that, but if there is an ```
"

I have brought this bug up before but haven't received any fix for it. Does anyone know what needs to be changed in the sanitizer function? It's mostly regular expressions and I don't know enough about them yet to make the correct changes. I will spend some time learning what the code is doing so I can change it if no one else knows what the change.

What it needs to do is change the " to ```
"
``` and leave the existing ```
"
``` untouched.

Anyone???

lankeeyankee:

Those are illegal characters that the googlefroogle.php file has turned into the A type characters. Open your xml file in a text editor and copy the character and then paste it into the editor's search function so you can replace with the correct character.

This is a bug in this contribution's script. I have the same problem and it takes extra steps to find all of the invalid characters.

I have tried to resolve this before, it lies in the sanitizer function in the googlefroogle.php file. Hopefully Numinix will get this resolved. If I fix it I will post the new file here.

Thank you for your response. When I did a search when in admin in the developer's tools. It shows in:

admin/image handler.php
Line #438 : <option value="GBP">£ (GBP)</option>

Line #441 : <option value="JPY">Â¥ (JPY)</option>

includes/classes/support/phpmailer.lang-ja.php
Line #13 : $PHPMAILER_LANG["execute"] = '¼Â¹Ô¤Ç¤##¤Þ¤»¤ó¤Ç¤·¤¿: ';

Line #20 : $PHPMAILER_LANG["connect_host"] = 'SMTP¥¨¥é¡¼: SMTP¥Û¥¹¥È¤ËÀܳ¤Ç¤##¤Þ¤»¤ó¤Ç¤·¤¿¡£';

includes/classes/support/phpmailer.lang-ru.php
Line #19 : $PHPMAILER_LANG["file_access"] = 'Â äîñòóïå ê ñëåäóþùåìó ôàéëó áûëî îòêàçàíî: ';

Or are you referring to the google file - /feed/froogle_documents.xml?
What about the other questions like upc and ibsn? Those are model number. How do I add them to file?

Thanks, Kim

This is a really great contribution. I don't think I've seen anything yet with Numinix on it that hasn't been helpful.

Of course, I wouldn't be posting if I wasn't having a problem. Would there be a reason for product_type not to be displayed? I've tried changing it from "Full" to "Top" and even "Bottom" but nothing shows in the feed:

<item>
<title><![CDATA[Dr. Maggie's Classroom Phonics Kit]]></title>
<g:brand><![CDATA[Cheapcher.com]]></g:brand>
<g:condition>new</g:condition>
<g:expiration_date>2010-03-29</g:expiration_date>
<g:id>10795</g:id>
<g:image_link>http://www.cheapcher.com/images/large/productimages/CTP/CTP-2926_LRG.jpg</g:image_link>
<link>http://www.cheapcher.com/language-arts-phonics-c-481_1526/dr-maggie-s-classroom-phonics-kit-p-10795/currency/USD</link>
<g:price>339.41</g:price>
<g:mpn>CTP-2926</g:mpn>
<g:currency>USD</g:currency>
<description><![CDATA[Designed for small group instruction, this kit includes six each of the 24 phonics readers (144 books in all), a resource guide, and 24 chant charts (17" x 22") with word cards on the back.  These charts feature fun rhymes and chants that introduce each story's key vocabulary and are perfect for giving students a head start into each phonics reader.  Includes a durable storage box. Grades K-3]]></description>
</item>

I just installed the latest version of this on 1.3.8a. The admin->configuration->google base configuration menu is there, and I set all the options, but the admin->tools->google base feeder menu doesn't exist. The closest there is is admin->tools->google froogle feeder, which I think was a previous version of this tool from way back in the day when they called it Froogle. This is copied text from that page. I assume this isn't it?

I ran the uninstaller for the old version, but it didn't totally get rid of it. Does it have one of the same records in the database that the installer of the new version isn't overwriting? What should I do?

Froogle Data Feeder

OVERVIEW:

This module automatically generates product feed for your Zen-Cart store and upload it to Merchant Center ftp.

INSTRUCTIONS:

STEP 1: Click [HERE] to create / update your product feed.

NOTE: You may view your product feed file before proceeding to step 2.

STEP 2: Click [HERE] to upload product feed to Google Froogle Merchants.

NOTE: You may view Froogle Merchants FTP content.

Tips: To have this update and automatically upload product feed to Google Froogle Merchants, you will need to set up a Cron job via your host's control panel.
To run it as a cron job (at 5:0am like you wanted), put something in your crontab like the following:

0 5 * * * GET http://www.adamantbarbell.com/googlefroogle.php?feed=yes&upload=yes
or
0 5 * * * wget http://www.adamantbarbell.com/googlefroogle.php?feed=yes&upload=yes

Hello all, I have an interesting issue. I've installed Zen Cart version 1.3.8a. I've added several templates, and using apple_zen one. I've installed a few add-on mods (Ceon_uri_mapping_seo_3-0-2, easy_populate_csv_1-2-5-5, ebay_exporter_1-02a, editor_tinymce_plugin_2-1, google_analytics_by_andrew, google_base_feeder, google_sitemap-1-3-19, image_handler_for vx_2, google_checkout_module, msrp_display_1-1, Products_profitmargin_calculations, column_divider_pro_cdp_v0-4, tabbed_products_pro_v1-05). I've had all of these working except the last one I was doing which is google_base_feeder. I have installed it, when I go to tools-google-base-feeder I get the menu to create the files. When I click the "Here" button to create the file It opens a new window, but in the window is my store. Now when I go to google sitemap, it does the same thing, it opens a window with my store in it. I've re-installed the mod several times. I've even setup a new store with only 1 test product and several of these mods, but it works. Now on the new store I've not put Tabbed Products pro on it yet, but has anybody else had this issue? Any ideas why my store would be opening instead? Any help would be appreciated.

TechnologyDirect:

Hello all, I have an interesting issue. I've installed Zen Cart version 1.3.8a. I've added several templates, and using apple_zen one. I've installed a few add-on mods (Ceon_uri_mapping_seo_3-0-2, easy_populate_csv_1-2-5-5, ebay_exporter_1-02a, editor_tinymce_plugin_2-1, google_analytics_by_andrew, google_base_feeder, google_sitemap-1-3-19, image_handler_for vx_2, google_checkout_module, msrp_display_1-1, Products_profitmargin_calculations, column_divider_pro_cdp_v0-4, tabbed_products_pro_v1-05). I've had all of these working except the last one I was doing which is google_base_feeder. I have installed it, when I go to tools-google-base-feeder I get the menu to create the files. When I click the "Here" button to create the file It opens a new window, but in the window is my store. Now when I go to google sitemap, it does the same thing, it opens a window with my store in it. I've re-installed the mod several times. I've even setup a new store with only 1 test product and several of these mods, but it works. Now on the new store I've not put Tabbed Products pro on it yet, but has anybody else had this issue? Any ideas why my store would be opening instead? Any help would be appreciated.
You mentioned that you installed several templates, but did you install all these mods into the current one your using? I am talking about the template override folders. apple_zen if you use it. If your other mods are not installed in this apple_zen override folder structure, they will not work. Maybe this is your issue?

Yes, I put them all in the apple zen folder. I have just put the Tabbed Products Pro in my test account and it still works. The browser window that opens even has the filename right and the right folder, just no file gets created, just the store showing in the new window.

I just found out that my ebay exporter mod does the same thing. there must be some file that is used by all 3 mods that has become messed up.